- FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Transplanted islet cells help
people with type 1 diabetes live insulin-free for at least a year or two,
and appear to provide longer-term improved metabolic control even after
people have to begin using insulin again, researchers report.

Using continuous glucose monitoring systems, researchers from the
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine [...]

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Republican John McCain will release 400 pages of medical records on Friday to try to put to rest lingering questions about his health and ability to handle the rigors of the presidency.

McCain will be 72 in August and the oldest American ever elected to a first presidential term if he wins the [...]

- FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Colon cancer patients with a
specific subset of the disease don't need to receive chemotherapy. In
fact, not only does chemotherapy not benefit this group of patients, it ma
y actually harm them, a new study found.

“If you are found to have [this type of colon cancer], then you should
not [...]

- FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Minimally-invasive
laparoscopic surgery and open surgery for colon cancer produce similar
outcomes, according to researchers who reviewed findings from 12
international studies involving over 3,300 patients.

“For a long time, many surgeons have been afraid that laparoscopy might
impair survival in colorectal cancer patients and cause metastases in the
skin openings that [...]

- FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — New details about the immune
cells thought to be responsible for type 1 diabetes are revealed in a
study by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis.

In research with diabetic mice, the scientists found these dendritic
cells in insulin-making structures in the pancreas called the islets of
Langerhans and [...]

- FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — A panel of 15 genes may help
determine which patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer will
experience a recurrence and, therefore, benefit the most from
chemotherapy, a new study shows.

By extension, the same genetic signature may also identify patients
with less aggressive forms of the cancer who would be able [...]

- FRIDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) — Taking activated vitamin D may
cut the risk of death for people with moderate to severe chronic kidney
disease by about one quarter, a new study suggests.

During a two-year study of more than 1,400 patients, those being
treated with calcitriol, an oral form of activated vitamin D, had their
overall [...]

NEW YORK - A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City’s 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are pulling out victims days after they were buried by a powerful earthquake.
How [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
An experimental drug from Swiss
drugmaker Novartis slowed the progression of kidney cancer in
patients whose tumors returned after initial chemotherapy,
researchers reported on Friday.
The drug, called RAD-001 or everolimus, may provide an
option for patients with a difficult-to-treat cancer, the
researchers said in an initial release of data ahead of a
meeting of the American Society of Clinical [...]

This illustration shows the DNA double helix. South Korea's parliament on Friday passed a law to regulate research into cloning. Cross-species cloning, in which DNA from human somatic cells is inserted into animal eggs, will now be punishable by up to three years in prison, the health ministry said.(AFP/HO/File)

SEOUL (AFP) -
South Korea's parliament on Friday [...]